dashy/docs/widgets.md

Widgets

Dashy has support for displaying dynamic content in the form of widgets. There are several built-in widgets availible out-of-the-box (with more on the way!) as well as support for custom widgets to display stats from almost any service with an accessible API.

Contents

• General Widgets
  • Clock
  • Weather
  • Weather Forecast
  • Crypto Watch List
  • Crypto Price History
  • XKCD Comics
  • TFL Status
  • Exchange Rates
  • Stock Price History
  • Joke of the Day
  • Flight Data
• Self-Hosted Services Widgets
• Dynamic Widgets
  • Iframe Widget
  • HTML Embed Widget
• Build your own Widget

General Widgets

Clock

A simple, live-updating time and date widget with time-zone support. All options are optional.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
timeZone	string	Optional	The time zone to display date and time in. Specified as Region/City, for example: Australia/Melbourne. See the Time Zone DB for a full list of supported TZs. Defaults to the browser / device's local time
format	string	Optional	A country code for displaying the date and time in local format. Specified as [ISO-3166]-[ISO-639], for example: en-AU. See here for a full list of locales. Defaults to the browser / device's region
hideDate	boolean	Optional	If set to true, the date and city will not be shown. Defaults to false

Example

- type: clock
  options:
    timeZone: Europe/London
    format: en-GB
    hideDate: false

Weather

A simple, live-updating local weather component, showing temperature, conditions and more info.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
apiKey	string	Required	Your OpenWeatherMap API key. You can get one for free at openweathermap.org
city	string	Required	A city name to use for fetching weather. This can also be a state code or country code, following the ISO-3166 format
units	string	Optional	The units to use for displaying data, can be either metric or imperial. Defaults to metric
hideDetails	boolean	Optional	If set to true, the additional details (wind, humidity, pressure, etc) will not be shown. Defaults to false

Example

- type: weather
  options:
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    city: London
    units: metric
    hideDetails: false

Weather Forecast

Displays the weather (temperature and conditions) for the next few days for a given location. Note that this requires either the free OpenWeatherMap Student Plan, or the Premium Plan.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
apiKey	string	Required	Your OpenWeatherMap API key. You can get one for free at openweathermap.org
city	string	Required	A city name to use for fetching weather. This can also be a state code or country code, following the ISO-3166 format
numDays	number	Optional	The number of days to display of forecast info to display. Defaults to 4, max 16 days
units	string	Optional	The units to use for displaying data, can be either metric or imperial. Defaults to metric
hideDetails	boolean	Optional	If set to true, the additional details (wind, humidity, pressure, etc) will not be shown. Defaults to false

Example

- type: weather-forecast
  options:
    city: California
    numDays: 6
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    units: imperial

Crypto Watch List

Keep track of price changes of your favorite crypto assets. Data is fetched from CoinGecko

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
assets	string	Optional	An array of cryptocurrencies, coins and tokens. See list of supported assets. If none are specified, then the top coins by sortBy (defaults to market cap) will be returned
currency	string	Optional	The fiat currency to display price in, expressed as an ISO-4217 alpha code (see list of currencies). Defaults to USD
sortBy	string	Optional	The method of sorting results. Can be marketCap, volume or alphabetical. Defaults to marketCap.
limit	number	Optional	Number of results to return, useful when no assets are specified. Defaults to either all or 100

Example

- type: crypto-watch-list
  options:
    limit: 10

Or

  - type: crypto-watch-list
    options:
      currency: GBP
      sortBy: marketCap
      assets:
      - bitcoin
      - ethereum
      - monero
      - cosmos
      - polkadot
      - dogecoin

Crypto Token Price History

Shows recent price history for a given crypto asset, using price data fetched from CoinGecko

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
asset	string	Required	Name of a crypto asset, coin or token to fetch price data for, see list of supported assets
currency	string	Optional	The fiat currency to display results in, expressed as an ISO-4217 alpha code (see list of currencies). Defaults to USD
numDays	number	Optional	The number of days of price history to render. Defaults to 7, min: 1, max: 30 days

Example

- type: crypto-price-chart
  options:
    asset: bitcoin
    currency: GBP
    numDays: 7

XKCD Comics

Have a laugh with the daily comic from XKCD. A classic webcomic website covering everything from Linux, math, romance, science and language.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
comic	string / number	Optional	Choose which comic to display. Set to either random, latest or the series number of a specific comic, like 627. Defaults to latest

Example

- type: xkcd-comic
  options:
    comic: latest

TFL Status

Shows real-time tube status of the London Underground. All options are optional.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
showAll	boolean	Optional	By default, details for lines with a Good Service are not visible, but you can click More Details to see all. Setting this option to true will show all lines on initial page load
sortAlphabetically	boolean	Optional	By default lines are sorted by current status, set this option to true to instead sort them alphabetically
linesToShow	array	Optional	By default all lines are shown. If you're only interested in the status of a few lines, then pass in an array of lines to show, specified by name

Example

- type: tfl-status

  - type: tfl-status
    options:
      showAll: true
      sortAlphabetically: true
      linesToShow:
      - District
      - Jubilee
      - Central

Exchange Rates

Display current FX rates in your native currency

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
apiKey	string	Required	API key for exchangerate-api.com, usually a 24-digit alpha-numeric string. You can sign up for a free account here
inputCurrency	string	Required	The base currency to show results in. Specified as a 3-letter ISO-4217 code, see here for the full list of supported currencies, and their symbols
outputCurrencies	array	Required	List or currencies to show results for. Specified as a 3-letter ISO-4217 code, see here for the full list of supported currencies, and their symbols

Example

- type: exchange-rates
  options:
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    inputCurrency: GBP
    outputCurrencies:
      - USD
      - JPY
      - HKD
      - KPW

Stock Price History

Shows recent price history for a given publicly-traded stock or share

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
apiKey	string	Required	API key for Alpha Vantage, you can get a free API key here
stock	string	Required	The stock symbol for the asset to fetch data for
priceTime	string	Optional	The time to fetch price for. Can be high, low, open or close. Defaults to high

Example

- type: stock-price-chart
  options:
    stock: NET
    apiKey: PGUWSWD6CZTXMT8N

Joke

Renders a programming or generic joke. Data is fetched from the JokesAPI by @Sv443

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	string	Optional	Set the category of jokes to return. Use a string to specify a single category, or an array to pass in multiple options. Available options are: all, programming, pun, dark, spooky, christmas and misc. An up-to-date list of supported categories can be found here. Defaults to all
safeMode	boolean	Optional	Set to true, to prevent the fetching of any NSFW jokes. Defaults to false
language	string	Optional	Specify the language for returned jokes. The following languages are supported: en, cs, de, es, fr and pt, and an up-to-date list of supported languages can be found here. By default, your system language will be used, if it's supported, otherwise English

Example

- type: joke
  options:
    safeMode: true
    language: en
    category: Programming

Flight Data

Displays airport departure and arrival flights, using data from AeroDataBox. Useful if you live near an airport and often wonder where the flight overhead is going to. Hover over a row for more flight data.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
airport	string	Required	The airport to show flight data from. Should be specified as a 4-character ICAO-code, a full list of which can be found here (example: KBJC or EGKK)
apiKey	string	Required	A valid RapidAPI Key, with AeroDataBox enabled (check in your Subscription Dashboard). This API is free to sign up for and use
limit	number	Optional	For busy airports, you may wish to limit the number of results visible
direction	string	Optional	By default, both departure and arrival flights will be fetched, if you would like to only show flights in one direction, set this to wither departure or arrival

Example

- type: flight-data
  options:
    airport: EGLC
    apiKey: XXXXX
    limit: 12
    direction: all

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Dynamic Widgets

Iframe Widget

Embed any webpage into your dashboard as a widget.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
url	string	Required	The URL to the webpage to embed

HTML Embedded Widget

Many websites and apps provide their own embeddable widgets. These can be used with Dashy using the Embed widget, which lets you dynamically embed and HTML, CSS or JavaScript contents.

⚠️ NOTE: Use with extreme caution. Embedding a script from an untrustworthy source may have serious unintended consequences.

Options

Field	Type	Required	Description
html	string	Optional	HTML contents to render in the widget
script	string	Optional	Raw JavaScript code to execute (caution)
scriptSrc	string	Optional	A URL to JavaScript content (caution)
css	string	Optional	Any stylings for widget contents

Example

- type: embed
    options:
      css: '.coinmarketcap-currency-widget { color: var(--widget-text-color); }'
      html: '<div class="coinmarketcap-currency-widget" data-currencyid="1" data-base="USD" data-secondary="" data-ticker="true" data-rank="true" data-marketcap="true" data-volume="true" data-statsticker="true" data-stats="USD"></div>'
      scriptSrc: 'https://files.coinmarketcap.com/static/widget/currency.js'

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Build your own Widget